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Brookline to be flooded with scooters - and you know a lot of them will wind up in Boston

NBC Boston reports Brookline has given two companies approval to load up the town with battery-powered rental scooters starting April 1. Brookline, of course, is shaped like a paramecium surrounded by a Boston-sized amoeba, so now the question is what happens when the gizmos wind up left on streets in Boston - where they're still technically banned as city officials try to figure out how to regulate the things.

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Can't wait for these scooters to infiltrate Boston -- I have all the apps (Bird, Jump (Uber), Lyft, Lime) downloaded and setup. I'll ride the scooters into the sunset before Boston can pick them up.

But on a more serious note, Boston should take some pointers from San Antonio, TX, which has clearly painted scooter zones on each downtown street. They also have restricted zones (around the Alamo, for example), which prevent users from parking/locking scooters where they shouldn't be.

Teen pregnancies have dropped to the lowest levels in decades and continue to decline the results of which are directly linked to free access to birth control and sex education. So yeah, take that libtards I guess?

But they could instruct the scooter to gradually slow to a stop and then refuse to operate until it has been moved back within the geofence. There's also the option of fining users who repeatedly take the scooters outside the town limits.

The scooter companies used the same dumping-without-permit tactics that they used in the Boston area - it generates interest and demand, and gets consumers hooked, thereby making it more difficult for the city to issue a blanket ban (which there was for a hot second), and instead forces them into negotiations for permits.

One of the companies failed to submit required documentation by the deadline, so the city rounded up all the scooters and deposited them in impound. It was really satisfying to see them loaded up, knowing how expensive and difficult it is to get anything out of impound here.

They're back though. As usual, the little cat and mouse game plays out, a little extra money is paid, and documentation is magically "in order" again.

I doubt that, the additional income notwithstanding, Boston would want to put the energy and resources into constantly finding and impounding scooters. And I'm positive the scooter purveyors would negotiate their way to a "workaround".

Will these end up being thrown into the harbor and vandalized by angry Bostonians who don’t like change? Like the lime bikes. Can’t wait for the 311 reports of a whicked smart Bostonian who can’t figure out how to walk around a parked scooted without filing a complaint.